Sweeney Astray

Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish is a version of the Irish poem Buile Shuibhne written by Seamus Heaney, based on an earlier edition and translation by J. G. O'Keeffe. The work was first published in 1983 and won the 1985 PEN Translation Prize for poetry.

Photographer Rachel Giese and Heaney later collaborated to juxtapose selected passages of Heaney's translation with Giese's photographs of sites mentioned in the text, a work published as Sweeney's Flight.

Editions

• Seamus Heaney, Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish (Derry: Field Day Publications, 1983),
• Seamus Heaney, Sweeney Astray (London: Faber, 1984),
• Seamus Heaney and Rachael Giese, ' (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992); pp. 85–117 print the complete text, with revisions
• Seamus Heaney, Sweeney Astray (London: Faber and Faber, 2001) ; prints the revised text first published in Sweeney's Flight